Husbands' Influence on Wives' Drinking: Testing a Relationship Motivation Model in the Early Years of Marriage.

Leonard, Kenneth E.; Mudar, Pamela

doi:10.1037/0893-164x.18.4.340

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“…It is worth considering the somewhat different pattern of spousal influence that we observed for marijuana use in the current study in comparison to the pattern observed for heavy alcohol use (Leonard & Mudar, 2004). For both alcohol and marijuana, wives influenced husbands' use from the first to the second anniversary.…”

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confidence: 41%

“…However, the directionality of this influence pattern later changed. Although husbands' premarital drinking was predictive of wives' drinking at the couple's first anniversary, wives' drinking at the first anniversary predicted husbands' drinking at the second anniversary (Leonard & Mudar, 2004). The fact that close personal relationships are dynamic (Blumstein & Kollock, 1988) (Kandel & Logan, 1984).…”

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Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Leonard

Homish²

2005

Journal of Drug Issues

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Reductions in substance use tend to coincide with marriage, as both may occur during emerging adulthood. During the transition to marriage, it is possible that one's spouse may be the influence that causes the reduction in substance use. Data on participants (N = 471 couples) for this report are taken from a longitudinal study of early marriage. The objective of the current analysis is to determine if having a spouse who uses marijuana is associated with a greater likelihood of one's own use. Additionally, we are interested in spousal influence and cessation. The findings support spousal influence. Husbands are more likely to start using marijuana if their wives use marijuana, but the reverse is not true. Husbands also are more likely to stop using if their spouses do not use. During the transition into marriage, the drug use of one spouse does affect the other. However, this influence appears to be unidirectional, with wives influencing their husbands more often.

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Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Leonard

Homish²

2005

Journal of Drug Issues

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“…Over the transition to marriage, Leonard and Mudar (2004) found that premarital heavy drinking was strongly predictive of heavy drinking in the first year of marriage, with standardized regression coefficients of .65 for men and .54 for women.…”

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“…Longitudinal studies suggest that while there is considerable discontinuity of drinking behavior over time, there is some modest stability, even among young adults (Donovan, Jessor, & Jessor, 1983;Fillmore & Midanik, 1983). Over the transition to marriage, Leonard and Mudar (2004) found that premarital heavy drinking was strongly predictive of heavy drinking in the first year of marriage, with standardized regression coefficients of .65 for men and .54 for women.…”

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Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Leonard

Homish

2008

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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This study investigated the factors predictive of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the early years of marriage, focusing on the premarital drinking and relatively stable individual risk and protective factors that were present prior to marriage, and on social-interpersonal factors that may change or emerge over marriage. Newlywed couples were assessed at the time of marriage, and at the 1 st , 2 nd , and 4 th anniversaries with respect to frequency of heavy drinking and the extent of drinking problems, and a variety of factors that have been found to be predictive of adult alcohol problems. The results indicated that antisocial characteristics, family history of alcoholism, negative affect, and alcohol expectancies were related to heavy drinking and alcohol problems at the time of marriage. Changes after marriage were predicted by the drinking of one's partner and of one's peers and by alcohol expectancies for social/physical pleasure for both men and women. In addition, the quality of the marriage was longitudinally protective from the experience of alcohol problems for both men and women, although it was not related to changes in heavy drinking. KeywordsAlcohol Problems; Drinking Patterns; Marital Functioning; Partner Influence; Peer Influence Theoretical approaches to excessive drinking and alcohol problems have shifted from risk factor and person-environment interaction models to probabilistic-developmental models (e.g., Zucker, 2004) that incorporate person-environmental interactions into a broader developmental psychopathology approach (Windle & Davies, 1999). These models emphasize an array of biological, psychological, and social processes, sometimes acting in concert and sometimes in opposition to each other. This model argues that alcohol use and alcohol problems both affect and are affected by maturational processes and phase-specific transitional events. As Zucker, Fitzgerald, and Moses (1995) (p. 686). From this perspective, understanding the development of heavy drinking and alcohol problems is fostered by focusing on transitional events, particularly those that introduce, remove, or reorganize the biological, psychological, or social influences on drinking.One of the most important psychosocial transitional events is marriage, an event experienced by more than 70% of men and women by age 35 (Fields, 2003). Marriage carries with it a variety of tasks that can fundamentally alter an individual's view of self, as well as how the broader social network behaves toward the individual and the couple. At the psychological level, there is often a marked shift away from more individualistic values and toward more interdependent and socially positive values, consistent with the adoption of the new role of spouse. There is also often a major reorganization of the social network involving the reestablishment or redefinition of ties, both as individuals and as a couple, with each member's extended family and peer network (Boss, 1983;McGoldrick & Carter, 1982).In addition to these psycho-socia...

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“…These studies did not inform us, however, on the effects of the partner's alcohol use on adolescent drinking. Studies examining reciprocal influence effects between partners' alcohol consumption revealed that partners also affect each other's alcohol use through their own drinking behaviors [12,34,35]. In addition, assortative mating (''like marries like'') seems to be an etiological factor for adult spouse similarities in alcohol dependence [1,25,32,37].…”

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The crown of love: intimate relations and alcohol use in adolescence

Zwaluw¹,

Vermulst²,

Buitelaar³

et al. 2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Background: Remarkably, little attention has been paid to the role of intimate partners and their drinking behavior in relation to adolescent alcohol use. In the current study, we examined associations between adolescent alcohol use and romantic partners’ drinking behavior. Methods: A total of 428 families, consisting of both parents and two adolescents (aged 13.4 and 15.2 at Time 1) participated in a prospective study with four annual waves. Correlations and multivariate regressions were used to examine (1) similarity in drinking behaviors of adolescents and intimate partners, (2) whether alcohol use of partners prospectively predicts adolescent alcohol consumption, and (3) whether adolescents who consume alcohol select partners over time who show similar drinking behaviors. Results: (1) Frequency of alcohol consumption of adolescents and of their romantic partners correlated significantly. (2) Alcohol use of partners was not predictive of adolescent alcohol consumption over time, if previous levels of alcohol consumption were taken into account. (3) Adolescents acquired partners with similar drinking behaviors. Gender effects were found; adolescent girls, but not boys, were more likely to become involved with partners who also frequently consumed alcohol. Conclusions: Regarding alcohol consumption, adolescents and their intimate partners were relatively similar in alcohol use. This resemblance is best explained by adolescents’ selection of future partner on the basis of alcohol consumption. Less indication was found for influence effects, perhaps due to the transient nature of most adolescent romantic relationships

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Husbands' Influence on Wives' Drinking: Testing a Relationship Motivation Model in the Early Years of Marriage.

Cited by 72 publications

References 32 publications

Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

The crown of love: intimate relations and alcohol use in adolescence

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